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Tool invoked as 'ccusage blocks --active' to pull recent Claude Code cost into the weekly audit report.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
A one-developer tool refuses to guess which task burned the tokens, and in the process shows how much agent-cost reporting is arithmetic dressed up as observation.
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One shell flag turned an upstream timeout into a fatal exit and blanked a status bar for seven days. The repair, both times, was to keep printing something, even when that something is n/a.
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PostHog says one product's LLM cost doubled from $5k to $10k in a day and it was not a regression. Without per-workflow tracking, growth and a defect look identical on the invoice.
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An independent recount of six usage trackers found gaps of 2.00x to 8.09x. The bigger problem is that none of them, and no invoice, can say which number was right.
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One developer found seven dead MCP connections and could not say when they broke. His answer was measurement: a weekly snapshot that turns "feels slow lately" into a dated diff.
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